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On the Causality of Great Personalities and Great Events Exemplified by Lenin and the October Revolution

On the Causality of Great Personalities and Great Events Exemplified by Lenin and the October... Was the October Revolution inevitable If yes, what was its realcharacter If not, could it have been avoided or taken a differentcourse What was the role played in it by Lenin Using the dialecticalmethod of analysis, an attempt is made to provide answers to thesequestions. The following points are stressed 1 Given the general andparticular conditions of Russian life created by the First World War andthe February Revolution, the break with the old democratic mixedcapitalist form and the establishment of the new totalitarian statecapitalist form of the social development were inevitable. 2 The factthat this process was headed by Lenin was accidental and, hence,avoidable. 3 But Lenin individualised the general and particularfeatures of the October Revolution in terms of the names of the eventsassociated with the revolution, of the time of its occurrence, of itsparticipants and of their positions during and after the revolution. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Social Economics Emerald Publishing

On the Causality of Great Personalities and Great Events Exemplified by Lenin and the October Revolution

Raiklin, Ernest
International Journal of Social Economics , Volume 18 (5/6/7): 35 – May 1, 1991
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Was the October Revolution inevitable If yes, what was its realcharacter If not, could it have been avoided or taken a differentcourse What was the role played in it by Lenin Using the dialecticalmethod of analysis, an attempt is made to provide answers to thesequestions. The following points are stressed 1 Given the general andparticular conditions of Russian life created by the First World War andthe February Revolution, the break with the old democratic mixedcapitalist form and the establishment of the new totalitarian statecapitalist form of the social development were inevitable. 2 The factthat this process was headed by Lenin was accidental and, hence,avoidable. 3 But Lenin individualised the general and particularfeatures of the October Revolution in terms of the names of the eventsassociated with the revolution, of the time of its occurrence, of itsparticipants and of their positions during and after the revolution.

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International Journal of Social Economics – Emerald Publishing

Published: May 1, 1991

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